clarence thomas raised his nephew “like a son” until it became too difficult at which point he dumped him and washed his hands of the boy’s life. www.businessinsider.com/clarence-tho...
No shocker about Thomas, he’s reprehensible. Mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent crimes (regardless if they’re arbitrarily designated as such) have to fucking go. At a minimum. Its devestating that this guy is facing at least 30 years for drugs/weapons charges
As usual poor parenting. :-). I have a theory that most unruly children come from broken homes where the parents are not grown up enough to consider the children or use them as weapons against their ex. or overly strict upbringings that inevitably bring about rebellion. :-)
Aside from being a shit human being, why is a Supreme Court Judge having someone else pay for his kid's private school when he can obviously afford it himself?
Every time I think I can’t possibly dislike Clarence and Ginni Thomas any more than I already do, they find always find a new way to inspire my ire to greater heights.
Clarence Thomas is truly outstanding in regards to how many different axes he manages to be awful on. Most terrible people specialize in a few areas of horribleness but not Thomas! Truly outstanding in being garbage.
listen i know i hate this dude’s politics but also everything i have learned about him as a person suggests that he is truly awful towards those who can’t give him something, whether that is money, power or self-satisfaction
The Thomases sent Martin to the elite military prep school Randolph-Macon Academy, as well as a residential therapeutic treatment center called Hidden Lake Academy which became the subject of congressional hearings over claims they could mislead families and turn abusive.
tough love!
So he takes his nephew in so he can cosplay his mean ass grandfather, abandons to kid to one of those notorious “therapeutic” teen facilities, he acts out more cause duh and then they dump him like a bag of garbage. Sickening and heartbreaking.
I'm stunned. Who would've expected this from the guy who lied about his "welfare queen sister" to ingratiate himself with wealthy and powerful circles.
Isn't Thomas' whole self myth that because he went from flailing to SC Justice that anyone who doesn't is a moral failure not worth living? Like, he refuses to ignore any breaks or luck that may have benefitted him but blames others for things they couldn't control that caused them trouble?
Whole new level of cruelty for this absolute motherfucker.
How do you do this shit to a kid? Got popped for smoking weed and being a surly teenager so you cut him off and decide that it's not even worth it to get one of your shithead pals to give him a make-work job?
Isn't the Conservative cant that higher incarceration rates of young Black men is caused by the collapse of the nuclear family in Black communities?
Why did Clearance Thomas so abjectly fail his grandnephew that he raised as a son?
Shouldn't he have done better to serve as An Example?
If I had a nickel for every time I saw a conservative man who randomly ‘adopted’ a teen only to throw him away later, I'd have three nickels-- which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened thrice. Right?
I knew a person in my field who was a serial sexual harasser that was also widely incompetent and unethical in his professional duties. He nonetheless rose the ranks through favoritism from female superiors who he had sexual relationships with. I did what I could to oppose this, but couldn't.
This hits me in the feels.
You never throw people away. You always love and respect their humanity even if you may not like them very much at that moment. He needs them. I hope he has a support network without them.
This really shows the mentality of both Thomas and Ginni.
if only there were a similar case that had recently been adjudicated, perhaps involving the president of the united states, standing by his son through difficult times involving the legal system, as a contrast in moral behavior